Experiencing the shift: How postsecondary contract and continuing faculty moved to online course delivery

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dc.contributor.authorDanyluk, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorBurns, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T22:27:13Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T22:27:13Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-13
dc.description.abstractThe shift to online learning that occurred in March of 2020 created an unprecedented period of intense work for faculty and sessional instructors at the postsecondary level. This shift necessitated courses be adapted under short timelines, new technology be integrated into course design, and teaching strategies and assessment methods be adapted for an online environment (Van Nuland et al., 2020). This study examines how sessional instructors, referred to in this article as contract faculty, and continuing full-time faculty members delivering the same online courses experienced this shift. While the demands of a continuing faculty position call for balancing of teaching, research, and service responsibilities, contract instructors have their own unique stressors (Karram Stephenson et al., 2020). Contract faculty lack job security, are paid by the course, and often receive their teaching assignments with short notice. By examining their perspectives on delivering the same courses online, we learn that the shift to online teaching resulted in additional work in order to adapt courses to the online environment, with faculty describing the challenges of balancing the additional work with other responsibilities of their position. Concerns of participants focused on a perceived inability to develop relationships with students in an online environment.
dc.identifier.citationDanyluk, P., & Burns, A. (2021). Experiencing the shift: How postsecondary contract and continuing faculty moved to online course delivery. Brock Education Journal, 30(2), 63. https://doi.org/10.26522/brocked.v30i2.866
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.26522/brocked.v30i2.866
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1880/119169
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrock University
dc.publisher.facultyWerklund School of Educationen
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersion
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.policyhttps://journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked/index.php/home/about/submissions
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectContinuing faculty
dc.subjectContract faculty
dc.subjectShift to online
dc.subjectPandemic
dc.subjectTeaching online
dc.titleExperiencing the shift: How postsecondary contract and continuing faculty moved to online course delivery
dc.typeArticle
ucalgary.scholar.levelFaculty
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